The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-03-26
washington News and Gossip.
From our Special Correspondent.


WASHINGTON. d. c., Mar, IA, 'S7.
Mr.. EDITOR; 1t seems that Commissioner
Sparks, of the Land Office, has ut last got him
self in tight place which may ultimately lead
to his resignation. Practitioners before the
Bureau ever since ais accession to the Office have
been hoping that something would turn up to
lead him into other fields The latest story that
he wrote to personal friend in New York state,
saying that he would do all in his power 10 defeat
Clevelands renomnation and to secure the
nomination of Coy. Hill, seems to be very gener-
any accepted about here as contauipg a great
deal of truth. Ii is true that the Commissioner
has denied any foundation for the runner, but
still people around the Capital, who seem to
know pretty well what is going on, say that there
is more fact than ilctian in the story. The Com
missioner has also set the pot to boiling in the
Treasury Department. lie has charged the
Assistant Comptroller with the authorship OF
certain official correspondence rejecting upon
his action in land claim, pending in his Office in
which he says the assistant official was interested,
and publicly says that the Deputy Comptroller
has no right to the position he holds and should
be removed at once. Mr.. Garrison, In defense,
publishes card, saying that the Comptroller
himself conducted the correspondence. as the
record shows. Mr.. Sparks seems to possess the
faculty of cuarreng with all his official brothers,
and you need not be surprised any day to hear Of
hisresignation.
| Ever since Congress adjourned the air has been
| full of rumors OF official misdoings, and rupturcs
of good feeling between Washington officials.
| In connection with the resignation of Commits
sioner Of Patents Montgomery, he was reported
TO have said, in an interview with anewspapcr
man, that Congressman and Senators bored the
| life out of him in soliciting appointments for
| friends, and that they we're more importnate In
soliciting appointments for women whom they
| had never met before coming to Washington
| than for any other class of favor seekers. Nr.
Montgomery has, however, very emphatically
! denied ever having entertained such Il thought,
much less giving utteranee to such scandal and
says further that his soereason for s,lrrCudeTinG
his honorable Office is TO engage inythe practice
Of law again before his Old practice Is completely
scattered and lost His many friends here have
hopes that he viii receive the nomination for
Congress when the time for making examinations
again rolls arounl.
Another rumor without foundation was to the
effect that Sergeant at-Arms CanaGay, Of the
Senate, was found to be short in his accounts,
and that he was guilty of borrowing money ofall
his subordnates without retuningit. Tie truth
is, Mr. Canaday has nothing to do with the dis
burSements ofmoney, as none passes through his
hands, and so has no accounts in which 10 'be
short" So far as the other part Of the rumor is
concerned the atfahle and generous Sergeant-Gt-
Arms is constantly lending instead Of borrowing
money, as he knows to his sorrow.
Secretary Endicott also denies that there sany
unpleasantness between him and the President
or that he has any Intention OF resignmg. There
has been some slight disagreement between him.
self and the newly appointed Surgeon General
of the Army, General Moore, about changes in
office of the Surgeon General, but even that Is
not of a serious nature, and under no clrcum'
stances would 1t affect the cordial and friendly
relations between the Secretary and President.
All these rumors have for their origin the fer
tile and Imaginative brains of newsy correspond
ents who are suffering for the want of spicy de
} bates in Congress and the personal "reminiscences
and gossip of members of Congress to write
about ii.